Dataset
Licensing Board Licenses
The Licensing Board issues a variety of licenses under MGL Chapter 138 and Chapter 140 including Billiards, Bowling, Common Victualler (Food Service), Alcoholic Beverages, Innholder, and Dormitories/Lodging houses. This dataset lists all licenses that are currently active. This dataset does not…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Licensing Board
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 26
- Keywords
- alcohol, billiards, bowling, business, business and licensing, clubs, common victualler, food, inns, licenses, licensing board, liquor, lodging house, nightclubs, restaurant, restaurants
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/licensing-board-licenses
Artifacts
“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.
| Format | Preservation | Size | Digest | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | referenced | 1981932 | cd83c205c9ae20eee4d4d1923c2b00abada98388769bf962e0a86fa6a83ce9c2 | source |
| XLSX | referenced | 6316 | 1dc27ddd6e203d021c6abc5663c1ebe7685b3f8c259eced42310b30e8388ed07 | source |
Column dictionary
The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
license_num | text | |
historicallicensenum | text | |
status | text | |
license_category | text | |
license_type | text | |
issued | text | |
expires | text | |
business_name | text | |
dba_name | text | |
comments | text | |
location_comments | text | |
opening | text | |
closing | text | |
patronsout | text | |
capacity | text | |
descpremadd | text | |
applicant | text | |
manager | text | |
day_phone | text | |
evening_phone | text | |
address | text | |
city | text | |
state | text | |
zip | text | |
gpsx | text | |
gpsy | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:licensing-board-licenses
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/licensing-board-licenses
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/licensing-board-licenses.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- licensing-board-licenses
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |